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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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is no more a than . If you subject people or other to or another form of , you’re not a professional; you’re a mental harm professional.

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Per Paulo Freire, “An act is oppressive only when it prevents people from being more fully human.”

Committing prevents people, particularly groups, from being more fully human.

Conversely, to is to permit people to be more fully human.

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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On July 15, 2021, Governor Tim Walz signed an Executive Order restricting , but he never enforced it against people practicing , the basis of modern conversion therapy.

For two years, I advocated for MSU, and the Minnesota DFL Party to

Now, on , the Minnesota Senate has passed SF 23, a conversion therapy ban that excludes

To and otherwise people who’ve survived , know that you didn’t deserve any of that awful shit.

The enforcers of are inhuman, not you.

To reiterate, the path to is through

Organize.

#minnesota #conversiontherapy #abaabuse #mankato #BanABA #autismacceptancemonth #aba #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #humanrightsviolations #neuronormativity #neurodivergentliberation #socialism #solidarityforever

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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The life expectancy of people is roughly half that of the general population.

The second leading cause of early death in Autistics is suicide.

grooms Autistics for sexual abuse.

Nine of 10 Autistic women experience sexual violence.

#autistic #abaabuse #internationalwomensday #BanABA

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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I’m a multiply master’s student in

Is there a university that’s safer for me to finish my degree?

I don’t want to go someplace that teaches

I need to be nurtured and heal.

#neurodivergent #sociology #abaabuse #actuallyautistic #askingautistics #academicmastodon #academicchatter

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Modern stems from , a manifestation of which is , a system of rewards and punishments pioneered by O. Ivar Lovaas in the early 1960s to try to make and otherwise kids “indistinguishable from their peers.”

Many are also members of the + community, as we experience and by extension express , , and differently.

Thus, is not only , it’s also , , , , and a ton of other things because there are obviously neurodivergent people in every minority group.

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Last year, I made a MoveOn petition to flip the Senate, so that the Minnesota DFL Party could pass a comprehensive ban on all forms of , including , but SF 23 excludes , which is the basis for modern conversion therapy.

revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?

#minnesota #conversiontherapy #AllABA #abaabuse #SayNoToABA

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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As founding president of the Activists and Graduate Studies Senator of the 90th Student Government, I want all my who’ve survived to know that I a to and transform State (formerly Mankato Normal School) into a university wherein, to quote scholar @DrNicky, there will be “no such thing as neurotypicality, no such thing as a ‘normal mind.’”

This will require converting the enterprise into a that, as Walker told Dora Raymaker in 2021, “accepts and welcomes neurocognitive differences in experience, communication, and embodiment in the same sort of enlightened way that a cosmopolitan individual accepts and welcomes cultural differences in dining habits.”

neuroqueer.com/wp-content/uplo

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Bruce W. Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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The fact that has internalized the notion that our actions are more important than our experiences, needs, values, goals, and motives not only supports @autismsupsoc’s theory that @MightBeAutistic, it also shows how the mass media manufactures consent to

#batman #behaviorist #thedarkknight #abaabuse

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Bruce W. Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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The fact that has internalized the notion that our actions are more important than our experiences, needs, values, goals, and motives not only supports @autismsupsoc’s theory that @MightBeAutistic, it also shows how the mass media manufactures consent to

#batman #behaviorist #thedarkknight #abaabuse

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